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by chipsy 16y ago
This is a gorgeous text, and easy to agree with, although it doesn't go into great detail.
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by chipsy 16y ago
Indeed. My perspective is that if you can grok Forth(which is unprotected stacks all the way down) embedding Lua should be cake, especially if you aren't planning on doing something fancy. And realistically...how often is it going to come u
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by chipsy 16y ago
The author is not saying "write C in Python," he's saying "Aim for C-style abstractions in Python." i.e. build the codebase around the bread-and-butter: function calls, iteration, reference-passing and mutability, and not around abuse of th
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by chipsy 16y ago
According to a pixel artist friend of mine, all the companies he's worked for using those types of anims will build a proprietary tool that essentially works like Flash in a pure-bitmap context; tweening, scaling, rotation, and bitmap cutou
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by chipsy 16y ago
This is the same sort of concept that you might see in theological or philosophical writing - realigning the dynamics of "self" vs. "the world" to motivate more focused behavior and lifestyle. But it's much more pleasant to read the works
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by chipsy 16y ago
I recommend this video as a sort of sequel to the points presented by Lustig: http://journal.crossfit.com/2010/04/insulin-body-weight-and-... Dr. Connelly expresses broader and more extreme opinions(he doesn't care about fiber, and essent
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by chipsy 16y ago
Indeed, it suggests something very core to entrepreneurship - the good money is always in new places, not existing ones. Oneupmanship in an existing field always turns into a game of capital and manpower, bigger risks for less reward. But "
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by chipsy 16y ago
In competitive play it makes a big difference. Each frame of a 60Hz game spans 16.66ms, while in a 30Hz game it's 33.33ms. Depending on how well the engine is coded, there will be at least one frame of latency between input and reactions, a
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by chipsy 16y ago
Blender is a very capable "integrated" package; however everyone finds some faults with the individual tools. I have a lot of trouble with the modeler, personally, and resort to modelling in Wings3D and exporting the result to Blender. On t
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by chipsy 16y ago
Spelunky is made in Game Maker, which lets you script on top of a pre-existing engine and IDE. It's hard to apply to "bare-metal" coding. I would point to open source games such as Nethack, Stepmania or Battle for Wesnoth for some ideas.
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by chipsy 16y ago
Contact generation is the process whereby, after a collision is detected, the points of contact are defined, which are necessary to simulate collision response(responses themselves are anything from a simple separation of the bodies to an i
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by chipsy 16y ago
Hmm. We might take this concept further and make it a "wager" of karma with a minimum bet, and you get gains at some rate proportionate to the size of the bet. But extending it in this way, it would probably also have to have some effect on
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by chipsy 16y ago
I'm started speculating that there's another theory for the obesity epidemic, based on this recent study: http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2011/04/08/coffee-and-fast-foo... The key thing here is that we've been putting caffeine alongside sat
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by chipsy 16y ago
This is excellent. Also check out the speculative contacts post: http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/03/25/speculative-conta... Even if your physics algorithms are wholly fake, you need quality contact resolution, or strange behavior wil
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by chipsy 16y ago
I don't find it odd that it's 2D. The game only needs paperdolling and scrolling, which are easily built with native Flash APIs. It makes sense that they'd start with the naive case and end up with a performance problem as the total chara
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by chipsy 16y ago
If it looks correct and doesn't cause a gaping maintenance problem, I wouldn't knock it. It's a promotional site, not a web app.
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by chipsy 16y ago
Also look at employment trends. More indies, more digital distribution, social, web and mobile game companies. The AAA studios are known to be fragile, risky operations, and the smaller retail-oriented studios(whether PC or console) have mo
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by chipsy 16y ago
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41349653/ns/business-us_business... We still have a substantial manufacturing base, it's just that we've squeezed the jobs out of it by emphasizing high productivity and automation, while outsourcing the dirtie
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by chipsy 16y ago
Disagreement. It is hard, yes, but if you approach the game design from the ground up as a business model with potential for built in marketing hooks and virality - even if it isn't a "viral" or "blockbuster" game - the way in which a game
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by chipsy 16y ago
Compare with the Object Pascal syntax: variable = ^Integer ( declaration ) ... variable2 := variable^ ( dereference ) To me, the vagarity of C variable/pointer syntax has always looked insane in comparison, though I will give it the benefit
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by chipsy 16y ago
Most programming (maybe 90% or more, depending on what you're doing) is boring. The exciting stuff comes when you're learning, debugging, or architecting. (Dealing with other people's horrible code, the build process, deployment, etc., can
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by chipsy 16y ago
Most programmers I know get the "I just discovered a silver bullet, damn I'm awesome" nonsense schooled out of them somewhere between entering college to a few years after, but apparently HBGary is an entire organization built on the except
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by chipsy 16y ago
I think a really strong FPS AI would be a technical achievement similar to automatic car driving; it has have a "real eyesight" algorithm, notice motion, understand varied terrain, etc. A basic LOS check is insufficient since there's lighti
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by chipsy 16y ago
Having built a structural/inferred type system myself(and then abandoning the project), it's amazing how the core implementation came out almost identically, just with different naming conventions. I didn't use many references for my own th
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by chipsy 16y ago
This, and it bears saying that _being_ elite is going to change your outlook. TED is great for what it is - trying to gather the "best of the best" and get their messages out. Worthy ideas can come from far more humble and marginal groups o
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by chipsy 16y ago
I think the main thing it could use now is general UX polish. The Freeciv server messages are "noisy" and many of them could be hidden or represented in more graphical ways. Actually playing the game is pretty good if you already know how t
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by chipsy 16y ago
The article's conclusion: Lift big with classic lifts. Gain strength. What I actually do: Take walks and do isometrics on convenient bars, poles, etc. Max power, 5-10 second holds, multiple angles. The better I am about those rules, the mor
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by chipsy 16y ago
At first I thought it would be less risky to do LA first and typed up as much. But now I'm thinking otherwise. You absolutely can do it in one step if you are motivated enough and can sell yourself. With $10k you can expect to live for at l
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by chipsy 16y ago
No, it can't.
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by chipsy 16y ago
There is a reason for more bits, but only at the production stage. Programmers all know about numeric precision, rounding errors and truncation; in post-processing, a whole chain of plugins hands off the signal, does work on it, hands it of

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